Dell EMC Channel Chief John Byrne says partners will be 'status matched' into the new unified Dell EMC Partner Program, but the vendor is also going to be looking closely at which partners are pulling their weight.

Violin Memory was one of the first out the door with the development of all-flash storage arrays, but the company was never able to grow its business in the face of intense competition not only from startups but from the established storage vendors.

Last week, we learned the heads of Dell EMC's Core Technologies Division and Emerging Technologies Division were gone. This week we learn the divisions themselves are gone as part of a larger reorganization.

The departures of Guy Churchward, president of the Core Technologies division at Dell EMC, and Chirantan "CJ" Desai, president of the company's Emerging Technologies division, come at a time when a massive integration of Dell' and EMC's products and people is well underway.

The rise of flash storage and software-defined storage, the fall of traditional storage, a revolving door of vendors, massive venture capital investments, and the end of an independent EMC made 2016 the most exciting year ever in storage.

Storage is a key building block for the cloud, and the AWS re:Invent conference turned out to be an important venue for the latest hardware and software components for building private and public clouds.

Legacy storage vendors, which had the most to lose as data started moving to the cloud, are now giving the upstart cloud vendors and big public cloud providers a run for their money. Here's what their partners have to say.

While public clouds large and small provide cloud storage, customers concerned about security or other issues can turn to their partners for help in building storage clouds tuned to their own requirements.

XChange 2017 featured dozens of vendors – including Extreme, Ingram Micro, Ruckus Wireless and many others – promoting their automation platforms, data backups, cybersecurity solutions and other offerings. Here are 30 products that stood out from the pack.